Speed cameras were invented to check cornering speeds to optimize racing lines. Good to see them put to use for their original intention.
Really? Didn’t know that! Do you know which series came up with it?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maus_Gatsonides
Hence “Gatso camera”
I’m not sure it’s a great idea to publish these like some sort of high score table.
We’ve got enough dickheads without them competing to see who can be the biggest.
Uk measures in mph?
We got stuck in a weird halfway point between imperial and metric. We are mostly metric, with a few holdovers. Road speeds being the biggest one.
Yup!
“Well now you see, we are staging a homage to William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and we’re a little late for the dress rehearsal. I’m playing the eponymous hero. Romeo, not Juliet.”
“You’re playing the male lead in a homage to William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and you’re late for the dress rehearsal. Do you think this is a sufficient reason to travel at 48 in a 30 zone?”
Lifetime driving ban.
And 10 years in jail. That speed is taking the piss, and they need to come down hard on people who do ridiculous speeds.
They should call it a “Lifetime driving ban plan” and call the fine a one off subscription to the service lmao
Driving is a privilege, licenses should be revoked way more often than they are.
These people would then drive on the roads without a license and are likely to get into car chases to get away.
So? That’s an enforcement issue, they should still lose their license and then face the extra consequences of driving without one.
Yup. Zero excuse for going that fast anywhere on public roads.
how do you even manage that? was it just a particularly poorly designed road where they slapped a lower speed limit on it? because i cannot imagine being physically able to reach that speed on most low-speed roads.
The data here is simply the maximum recorded speed, which includes a bunch of edge-cases and one-time events, and is not a mean speed value. Even a stock corolla can hit 200km/h given 1km of straight road to wind up on.
Any kind of residential area with a long straight road…
I was literally thinking of Mauldeth Road as an example of where you could do this but absolutely shouldn’t.
Unrelated, but God damn I hate Reach websites. Makes me irrationally angry every time I stumble upon one.
Possibly just after a speed limit change?
Yes, the road has changed from 45 to 30, so naturally we’ll go…checks notes…120.
Yeah not saying it was an appropriate speed for the previous area 😅 (except if the road was closed and competing in a wrc rally or something) just maybe explains how it was physically possible.
There’s a road near me that clearly should be a 50 but they can’t be arsed so they’ve just slapped to 30 limit on it. It’s long straight has no hills has two lanes and a central reservation, it’s a perfectly safe road.
But at 150 mph that road would be a death sentence, because it has a very very slight curvature to it, so slight that you barely even notice that you are going around the corner your brain just automatically has you turn the steering wheel ever so slightly. At 150 though the motion would probably destabilize the car.
Shocking!
I hope they get SLAMMED for that.
Those are rookie numbers. 764 mph in a 30mph zone is where it’s at nowadays.
The goal is to have the sun never set on you.
If pedestrians don’t vaporise into nothing then you’re clearly not going fast enough.
Did they think they could drive faster than the radar who catch them or something?
Lucky car crimes don’t count
I wonder what were they driving? There’s likely some I teresting data there!
Ford Focus with full body kit and wrap.
